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ikiwiki should support utf-8 pages, both input and output. To test, here's a
utf-8 smiley:
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Currently ikiwiki is belived to be utf-8 clean itself; it tells perl to use
binmode when reading possibly binary files (such as images) and it uses
utf-8 compatable regexps etc.
utf-8 IO is not enabled by default though. While you can probably embed
utf-8 in pages anyway, ikiwiki will not treat it right in the cases where
it deals with things on a per-character basis (mostly when escaping and
de-escaping special characters in filenames).
To enable utf-8, edit ikiwiki and add -CSD to the perl hashbang line.
(This should probably be configurable via a --utf8 or better --encoding=
switch.)
The following problems have been observed when running ikiwiki this way:
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If invalid utf-8 creeps into a file, ikiwiki will crash rendering it as
follows:
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x97, with no preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at /usr/bin/markdown line 1317.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/bin/markdown line 1317.
In this example, a literal 0x97 character had gotten into a markdown
file.
Running this before markdown can avoid it:
$content = Encode::encode_utf8($content);
I'm not sure how, or what should be done after markdown to get the string
back into a form that perl can treat as utf-8.
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Apache "AddDefaultCharset on" settings will not play well with utf-8
pages.
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CGI::FormBuilder needs to be told to set charset => "utf-8" so that
utf-8 is used in the edit form. (done)
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